Weather Forecast: Partly Sunny, Not So Warm VOL. 64, No. 39 Yale Professor Abused by Reds, Mother Claims NEW HAVEN, Conn.(/P)' Yale University Prof. Fred erick Barghoorn’s mother said yesterday he was hand cuffed by Soviet police who arersted him, and while in captivity in Moscow was “treat ed like a jailbird.” The mother, who finally got to spend some time with her son after his return home Sunday, said he lost weight on Russian prison food and added: "I’m very elated that he’s back, even though he is much lighter than he was when he left here.” Barghoorn’s mother said the Soviets tried to make him out a spy, but she declared: "His ‘unpardonable sin’ was that he could speak Russian and that he could understand what the people said when he heard them speaking.” As the Yale campus prepared a special celebration last night in honor of Barghoorn’s return, the shy scholar secluded him self at his home. Answers Mail Barghoorn answered some of his mail and caught up on some of the news since his arrest Oct. 31 in Moscow on espionage charges. His listed telephone was dis connected, and he spent most of Ihe day next door in his mother’s apartment, where friends an swered the telephone and the door. The 52-year-old specialist in •Soviet studies did go to his own one-room efficiency apartment, piled with books and papers, to talk with an Associated Press reporter. The professor also said he did not expect to add any details at a later date to his statement made at a news conference Sun day night. At that news conference, he said he would have to withhold a number of details until he had an opportunity to fully acquaint himself with the views and in formation of the appropriate of ficials in Washington. Looks Relaxed Dressed in an open-neck blue shirt and blue trousers, Barg hoorn, looking considerably more relaxed than he did when he arrived Sunday in the United States, made only one direct ref erence to his captivity. '64 Study Abroad List Completed Students selected for the 1964 Study Abroad Pro gram will be notified by mail before the end of this week, Dagobert de Levie, program director, said yester day. A total of 92 students had | been selected for final inter views from more than ’4OO ap plications for the program. Most of these students received final approval from the selec tion committee, de Levie in dicated. The director said a complete list of the students selected will be released in the near future. The students will be honored at an official reception before the end of the fall term and will undergo an orientation program during the winter term, de Levie said. The orien tation program will include introduction of faculty advisers and information on both the academic and non-academic aspects of the program, he said. Now in its third year, the program includes 10 weeks of study during the spring term in France, Germany, Spain or England. Students in all colleges of the University are eligible for the program, de Levie said. Qualifications The director said students who have an all-University average of 2.5 at time of appli cation and twelve credits or its equivalent in a foreign lan guage are eligible. Final selec tion will be based on academic average as well as “evidence of maturity, stability, self-disci pline and strong academic mo tivation,” he said. Over 100 applications have already been received for the 1965 program, de Levie said. About 250 application blanks have been distributed to date, “In view of the large re sponse, students are urged not to wait until the deadline of Feb. 15, but to return applica tions as soon as possible so processing can begin without delay," de Levie said. “Qualified juniors who wish to study abroad in their senior year are encouraged to apply, although it may be assumed that the majority of students selected will be those who ap ply in their sophomore year,” he added. i Sip Satlg fl| GMfgtmt PLANNING STAGES! The Penn Slate Music Series, started with the publication earlier this month of a can tata by Handel, is planned by Denis Stevens, left, pro fessor of music, and T. Rowland Slingluff, director of The Pennsylvania State University Press, which is pub lishing the series. A lecture-concert tomorrow night will mark the initiation of the series. 3Vi Hours Late Jazz Club Cancels Blakey's Concert By TONY FOGLIO City Editor Jazz Club President Jeff Rosenblum is getting into a rut with announcements that jazz musicians who are to give concerts on campus j will not arrive on schedule. Art Blakey and his Jazz Mes sengers, who were to substitute for ailing jazz pianist Oscar Peterson at 8 p.m. Sunday in Schwab, arrived at 11:30 p.m. —and found an empty audi torium. Rosenblum and the club’s executive committee canceled the concert at 9:15 p.m. rather than take' the financial loss which the club would have in curred under Blakey’s contract. • Audience Meant Salary If there were an audience still waiting for him, regardless of the time at which he ar rived, Blakey would have been Daid the full amount, Rosen blum said. Rosenblum made several an nouncements during the early part of the evening which re ported on Blakey’s progress. Rosonblum's first announce ment from the Schwab stage reported that Blakey and his Messengers had notified the club by telephone that they w- arrive on schedule. Approximately 200 per in ,ie audience left at that time. Near Williamsport Thirty minutes later Rosen blum received .another call from Blakey, who at this time was outside of Williamsport (approximately I x k hours’ drive from State College). Rosenblum said then that money would be refunded to anyone who left. However, he also asked the audience to stay because Blakey had told him the jazz musicians would ar rive within 30 minutes. By 9:15, the club’s executive committee, which met back- 66 Students Chosen For NTL Program Sixty-six students have been selected to attend the National Training Laboratories leader ship program to be held at the University Dec. 13, 14 and 15. John K. Brilhart, assistant professor of speech, will be one of six trainers conducting the program. The other train ers will be sent to the Univer-j sity by NTL. | Each group will consist of 12 students and a trainer. There are still openings for six stu dents who are willing to pay the $32 fee. Those participating in the program will be housed in dorms and will eat their meals in the Hetzel Union Building. AWS, Panhel The Association Women Students is sponsoring Linda Ballentyne, Linda Brunner, Joan Burkhart, Juliet Cromitie, Joanne Guokas. Susan Hack man, Sally Hamner and Bar bara Henning. Elizabeth Jaffe. Barbara Ko val, Phillippa Mathews, Susan stage, decided the Jazz Club “could not absorb the financial loss” which would be incurred by the lack of a large audience. According to the contract, Blakey would have received the full amount for the concert if the audience were still there when he arrived, regardless of the time. Concert Canceled Rosenblum then made his fi nal announcement: the concert had been canceled. He apolo gized to the remaining 500 per sons and said the club would refund money for tickets at its booth outside the Lion’s Den in the Hetzel Union Building until Wednesday. Steven Klipstein, club vice president for promotion, said yesterday the $750 deposit called for in Blakey’s contract has been returned. He explained also that the club was trying to get back the approximately $5OO it had spent for advertising in The Daily Collegian, on local radio stations and for posters and post cards. Not Blakey's Fault “We don’t feel it’s his (Bla key’s) fault,” Klipstein said, since Blakey was misinformed about the time required to drive from Montreal, Canada, to State College. Instead, the Jazz Club is placing the blame on Shaw Ar tists Inc., a booking agency, through whose Chicago office Blakey was obtained. Charles Graziano, manager of the Chicago office, “didn’t use his head at all. He should have thought 'of the musicians and he should have thought of us,” Klipstein said. When Blakey finally arrived at 11:30 Sunday night, he was “very sorry” about the can cellation and told the club’s executive committee he would like to return lto Penn State. “He’s a real musician. If he didn’t have his playing, he’d die,” Klipstein said. Mink, Irene Payne, Susan Sea ton, Maryann Soga, Mila Van derheid, Elda Waters, and Rose Witzel. Students being sponsored by Panhellenic Council are Debo rah Bowden, Patricia Delmoni co, Constance Gebert, Jane Marchezak, Margie McGarey, Judith Parke, Penny Patch, Lee Ann Rodgers, Shirley Ru bin, Elaine Seiko, Diane Sto ver and Marsha Strawinski. USG, IFC, MRC The Undergraduate Student Government is sponsoring Ed ward Ablard, Ronald Faucher, John Gilliland, George Ham merle, David Heitzenroder, Ju dith Leitzow, Dennis Rush, Alan Smeriean, Bruce Trot man and Kim Wall. Representatives from the Interfraternity Council are Scott Calahan, Leonard Creed, Ernest Gale, Larry Girvin, Richa d Hoover, John Keller, Myron Kerstetter, Donald Pow (Continued on page two) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, PA,, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1963 Deputy Says TFX Choice 'Right One' WASHINGTON (/P)— The No. 2 man in.the Defense Department testified yester day that the TFX warplane contract was awarded on the basis of “consideration of national defense and noth ing else." The testimony came’ from deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L. Gilpatric as the Sen ate Investigations subcommit tee began its final scheduled round of questioning Defense Department witnesses about the award which ultimately is ex pected to cost $5 billion or more. Gilpatric read his statement shortly after the subcommittee began taking open testimony. All previous testimony in the in vestigation which began Feb. 26 has been in closed sessions, with censored transcripts later made public. Still Convinced Gilpatric swore that he is as convinced now as he was last year that “the decision to select the General Dynamics proposal for the TFX contract was the right one.” The contract for the TFX— tactical fighter, experimental— was awarded to the Fort Worth, Tex., division of General Dy namics Corp., even though the Boeing Corp. of Seattle entered a lower bid and had the backing of military experts at the Penta gon. Gilpatric said that he formed his opinion about the TFX con tract independently of Secre tary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namara, but that McNamara made the final decision. He add ed, “The decision would have been the same if I hadn’t had any part.” Read Findings Gilpatric said he read a 60- page summary of findings by Navy and Air Force experts on the competing bids over the weekend of Nov. 10-11, 1962, and expressed his opinion the fol lowing Nov. 13. Gilpatric, as have other civil ian leaders at the Pentagon, said yesterday he believes Gener al Dynamics’ design was less complex, involved less risk of failure, would prove in the long run to be less expensive, and could be delivered to the Air Force and Navy sooner than Boeing’s. Gilpatric’s statement came after subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan, D-Ark., opened the session saying: “We should like to ascertain whether any conflicts of inter est or any undue influence were present; whether there were any breaches of ethical con duct: whether the decision was based on merit or if it was ar bitrarily made; and whether poor judgment was exercised in making the selection between the two contenders.” Earlier testimony developed that Gilpatric’s New York law firm had done some $126,000 worth of business for General Dynamics prior to the time he became deputy secretary of de fense in 1961. The Justice Department has said it found no conflict of in terest violation by Gilpatric in the TFX case. Grads, Boro Still Disagree Over Taxation The Committee for Fair Bor ough Taxation of Graduate Stu dents has received reports that some students have had difficul ty in gaining tax exemptions upon presentation of proof of non-residency to the borough tax collector, committee chairman Richard Rehberg said yesterday. “The committee wishes to em phasize,” Rehberg said, “that the tax exemption procedures announced earlier fully meet the conditions established by the State College School Board.” A copy of the board' minutes is being sent to the borough tax collector in hopes of eliminating further difficulty, he said. Out-of-State Students An announced earlier, out-of state graduate students can gain exemption from local per cap ita and occupation taxes upon presentation of a notice from University officials or other proof of out-of-state, residency. Pennsylvania students who do not consider themselves resi dents of this area will be ex empted from local taxes upon presentation of a notice of resi dency from the school board in the area in which he considers! himself a resident, Rehberg said. | The exemption ruling applies; to non-resident students in alb civil subdivisions of Centre Coun ty who received local tax state-! ments, the chairman said. Rehberg said any students who encounter difficulty in gaining local tax exemptions should im mediately contact him at UN 5-! 2500 during the day or AD 8-2813 j at night. - ' | GEORGE MEANY . . . not labor’s failure Bias Fight Urged by AFL-CIO NEW YORK (ff)—Warn ed that Negroes are losing faith in the labor move ment, the AFL-CIO yester day urged its 13.5 million members to fight racial dis crimination everywhere. But it slapped down a move to adopt language by its only] Negro vice president charging “failure of labor to throw its full weight into the civil rights revolution.” The 1,200 convention dele gates adopted a strong civil ,rights resolution after refusing to include the critical language of A. Philip Randolph, i Meany Refusal “I refuse to accept the idea, that the American trade union movement should be scolded and berated because it is not doing enough,” said AFL-CIO President George Meany. Meany said he could remem ber when labor was “the one segment of American society that was out in front in fighting in this field—and we didn’t have too much help.” Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, said: “There is a grow ing feeling of alienation from the labor movement in the Ne gro community.” A move from the convention floor to adopt his speech as a preamble to the civil rights res olution was defeated by voice vote. Negro Delegate The civil rights resolution was passed unanimously by voice vote after a Negro delegate said, “We want jobs, we want freedom. The time is now.” The delegate, Leo Smith of the International Electrical Workers Union, warned of a blood bath that would make past racial strife “look like a tea party’’ unless Negroes win what he termed full freedom. The resolution demands stronger federal measures and urges all AFL-CIO unions to help wipe out racial discrimina tion in all facets of life. U.S.A.: Helen Gregory as Gertrude and Mike Miller as the young J. W. Morehouse discuss their future plans in this scene from the Pavilion Theatre production ■ of "U.S.A." The play opens at 8 tonight for a run through Saturday, Stevens To Give Concert Denis W. Stevens, professor ards, guest tenor from New of music, will present a lec- Vorfc City. ' I a t «-an Stevens will conduct a 20- ture-concert fit o.oU p.m. to- n -. n i morrow in Schwab. choir, Accompanied by the The concert will mark the Aiard Q uar tet, in Guillaume publication of the Penn State Legrant’s "Gloria and Credo”. Music Series, edited by Stevens The number is a part of the and published by the Univer- second work of the series, sity Press. All numbers on the “Polyphonia Sacra”, edited by program will appear in pubh- Charles van den Borren, noted cations of the series some time; Belgian musicologist. This during, the year. i work is considered a classic Participating in the program ; of 15th century music. with Stevens will be Leonard The program, which is spon- Raver and Edwin W, Gamble, sored by the music depart- Jr., assistant professor of mu- ment. will also include works sic, and the Aiard String Quar- by Handel, Thomas Rosein jtet, a section of the Mcdita- grave, and Antonio de Cabe [ lion Choijrs, and Paul D. Rich-lzon. U S. Waves Atom Threat .NEW YORK (/P) The United States has let the Soviet Union know that it has 400 million tons of nuclear force on tap in Europe, ready to be used in whatever needed. ‘ The official word came yesterday from Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNa mara in a major policy speech understood to have been coordinated with the White House and State Department. The timing and tenor of the prepared address to the Economic Club of New York made it obvious that this was a cold response to recent tru culent talk by Soviet Premier Khrushchev. It was intended also as new reassurance for Allies con cerned about speculation of U.S. troop withdrawal from Europe Button-Pushing In the latest showdown on the Berlin autobahn, Khrushchev muttered menacingly, about nuclear button-pushing. ■ And there has been more Moscow growling about Soviet inter ests in Cuba. The mighty nuclear potential —expressed in terms of TNT equivalent—in Europe is es sentially in relatively small tactical weapons. It does not include the un told hundreds of millions of tons of TNT.equivalent in mis siles and bombs of the strategic forces, based in the United States, or in Polaris subma rines deployed within range of Soviet targets. McNamara’s speech also cov ered defense preparedness on a worldwide basis and weapons systems for massive as well as little wars. Explosive Strength “Today the thousands of U.S. warheads deployed in the Con tinent for the immediate de fense of Europe have a com bined explosive strength more than 10,000 times the force of the nuclear weapons used to end the second war,” he said. However, these factors are obvious: The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of the.war each had a yield of about 20 kilo tons—the equivalent of 20,000 tons of energy produced by conventional TNT detonation. This meant that the total tonnage was 40,000 tons. With this yardstick, the total yield for the thousands of warheads deployed in Europe would be 400 million tons or 400 mega tons. McNamara said that it must be the' policy to continue to strengthen U.S. combat effec tiveness. Not Reckless “I do not regard the present Communist leaders as wholly reckless in action. But recent experience, in Cuba and on a lesser scale in Berlin, has not persuaded me that 1 can predict with any confidence the sorts of challenges that Communist leaders will come to think pru dent and profitable. “If they were again to mis calculate as dangerously as they did a year ago, it would be es sential to confront them, wher ever that might be, with the full consequences of their ac tion: The certainty of meeting immediate, appropriate and fully effective military action,” he said. 'HealthyExpansion' Of Entire Economy Cited by Kennedy TAMPA, Fla. (/P) President Kennedy, on a whirl wind, five-speech tour through parts of Florida, said yesterday his administration is not “out to soak the rich” in spite of what many businessmen think. He is interested, the President said, in “the healthy expansion of our entire society and iti is this kind of program, in my opinion, in which American business has the largest stake.” During the course of four speeches in the Tampa area, Kennedy, also produced a vague prediction that, by the end of the century, airliners will be speeding at many times the speed of sound. And, speaking in an area where Communist domination of Cuba is a matter of imme diate concern, the President called Fidel Castro’s regime still “a major danger” and con ceded that the United States has not been able to remove him from power Isolate Communism But he said efforts of the United States and other West ern Hemisphere nations to “iso late the virus of communism” in Cuba had “achieved some measure of success.” And. he argued that Castro has “faded badly” as a revolutionary sym bol. Kennedy got a warm recep tion at his four appearances in Tampa. Moving at candidate speed, he made some depar tures from his prepared texts to inject, political overtones, even though the White House had tied a non-political tag to the tour. He got a long, noisy standing ovation from the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and drew vigorous applause when he said that during the last 18 months the growth rate of this country has exceeded that of France or Germany. Applaud Tax Cui He also was applauded when he put in a plug for the tax cut bill and said it would help to bring about the strongest peacetime expansion in na tional history. A question and answer ses sion after this talk led him into the Cuban question. Then he was asked when he is going to announce his candidacy for re-election. “I was a candidate so early in 1959,” the President cracked, “I though this time I would leave the people in more sus pense.” An address to the Inter- American Press Association in Miami Beach, last on the foren sic list, offered a forum for getting into such hemispheric issues as the Cuban problem, Latin-American concern over the progress of the Alliance of Progress, and Argentina’s an nulment of millions of dollars in contracts with American oil producers. Accreditors To Evaluate Journ School The School of Journalism is currently undergoing a two-day evaluation by a four-man ac crediting team from the Ameri can Council on Education for Journalism. The team, which will complete its evaluation today, will sub mit a report on its findings to the council’s accrediting com mittee. However, a decision on wheth er the school will regain the ac creditation it lost in 1961 will not be known until April, when the entire council will meet to discuss the committee’s recom mendations. An accrediting team from ACEJ was last here in Feb ruary, 1961, but did not evaluate the program due to a situation in the faculty. Herbert Brucker, then presi dent of ACEJ, said that the team discovered “a situation that made it impossible to evaluate the programs in question,” He said the council’s action was not an indication of jour nalism instruction at Penn State “so much as the reflection of an inability to reach a decision be cause of the situation at the time of the visit.” The school of Journalism's ac creditation then expired on July 1, 1961. ■ Adding to Pee Hall Parking -See Page 2 FIVE CENTS REP. CARL VINSON ... 50 years’ service Rep. Vinson To Retire House Seat WASHINGTON (/P)—One of the enduring monuments of Congress, Rep. Carl Vin son, D-Ga., turned 80 yes terday and said he will re tire at the end of his present term. Vinson has served in the House of Representatives long er than any man in history— it'will be 50 years on Nov. 14 next year. In the course of half a cen tury here, the small-town law yer from Milledgeville, Ga., be came an unquestioned autocrat of things military as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Over the years some generals and admirals have bowed and sc2 - aped before him in almost comical deference while he seemed to make a point of not remembering their names. Vinson is one of the half dozen or so men who wield the real power in the House. Tremendous Respect Along with the deference of the brass came the tremendous respect of his colleagues for the vast and detailed knowledge of the sprawling defense estab lishment that is locked in Vin son’s brain. They nicknamed him “The Swamp Fox,” “Admiral of the Ocean Sea,” but mainly “Uncle Carl.” Blue-eyed and eagle-beaked, with a twangy, cornpone-fla vored voice, Vinson runs his committee with a firm hand. He once told a colleague the secret is not to get all the mem bers mad at him at'once. Sepa rately, he can handle them. Once when his name was mentioned as the next secre tary of defense, Visnson said, “Shucks, I’d rather go on run ning the Pentagon from up here.” Warm Weather Should Continue Somewhat cooler air invaded Pennsylvania yesterday after the mercury had climbed into the middle 60’s for the second con secutive day. The change to cooler weather will not be pronounced and the mercury is expected to get well up into the 50’s this afternoon under partly sunny skies. It should be mostly clear and cool tonight, and a low of 40 is expected. Tomorrow should be mostly cloudy with rain beginning in the afternoon and continuing at night. A high of 55 is likely to morrow.
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